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authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2013-10-31 17:41:23 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-11-06 12:34:23 +0100
commit394570b7939e1262f39373866166d8ee0a506e88 (patch)
tree788cce8f829319e3b08d5851c469f6b9a7a5ef41 /kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
parentperf: Optimize perf_output_begin() -- address calculation (diff)
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perf: Update a stale comment
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com Cc: Vince Weaver <vince@deater.net> Cc: Victor Kaplansky <VICTORK@il.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-9s5mze78gmlz19agt39i8rii@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/ring_buffer.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/events/ring_buffer.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
index c52a32fa5592..e8b168af135b 100644
--- a/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/events/ring_buffer.c
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ again:
rb->user_page->data_head = head;
/*
- * Now check if we missed an update, rely on the (compiler)
- * barrier in atomic_dec_and_test() to re-read rb->head.
+ * Now check if we missed an update -- rely on previous implied
+ * compiler barriers to force a re-read.
*/
if (unlikely(head != local_read(&rb->head))) {
local_inc(&rb->nest);